Sister Croft in Thailand: What a bizarre week 4/21

This week. Was super bizarre :)

First of all. My companion just lied to me and told me that I was moving. I was pretty sad. But actually! I'm apparently staying here in Don Mueang! Hooray!!

Anyway this week. Was bizarre. I liked it a lot. Just a lot of weird things happened. :D First of all... this week was Songkhran. I didn't get any good pictures of like... actual water fights happening... because... I didn't want my camera to be destroyed. But... what a funny holiday! I love it! :) Haha... Sister Painter told me "no one is safe... ever." I was like... okay... what does that mean? As we took a bus to go to the church and play. The doors opened to let someone off and someone on the side of the road threw a bucket full of water into the bus. Okay. So nobody is safe ever :) The poor woman working on the bus... :) she was not very happy that she was wet. But honestly... it's just a huge waterfight all of the time. If you're riding on a motorcycle you'll probably get a bucket of water thrown on you. Or if you're walking. Or if you're on a bus. In a taxi... if your car is black. You'll probably get some baby powder put on it. It's just kind of crazy :) So first we played at the church. And then we went to this street... that I forget the name of. We basically just walked down this insanely long street at the mercy of water guns. Buckets of icy water. And this like... goopy stuff. Sometimes it's made of like this chalk stuff and water. Sometimes it's made of baby powder and water. Anyway. You walk down the street and everyone rubs the goopy stuff on your face. It's weird. But kind of funny. I probably had like... 10 million hands on my face throughout the day. Annnnnd. Yesh. You wear these crazy Hawaiian shirts. And... it's crazy. There was a Branch party... involving Karaoke and games and water and dancing.

Other things that happened this week. One of the investigators that we're teaching is so amazing. She is the sweet lady I told you about that was like... "I can't wait to go to church!!!" Well. This week... we had a Book of Mormon class and when we pulled up to the church she said "Sister. I prayed for two days in a row. And then I got an answer!" She is so awesome. She bore here testimony in the class about receiving answers to prayers and she is just amazing. Definitely one of those people that God prepared.

Annnnd. We had an amazing experience this week in going to visit this sweet sister who was recently baptized and then soon disappeared.

I call it: The miracle of the rain.

Anytime I had gone to visit her before... she was either

1. Not there. or

2. It was pretty awkward and she wouldn't really let us in her house.

I was on a switch-off that day. We went on over to her house with a plan of being bold and just really trying to have an opportunity to sit down and talk. We got there... and she was there! Hooray! We began talking... and I felt like my boldness was withering away... oh no... we're not getting in the house... but then. As we were about to leave. A miracle happened. It began to rain just a tiny bit. I looked up and it wasn't even like... the normal dark heavy clouds of rain. It was just a few bits of clouds. And me and Sister Hughes both agreed it really was a miracle. She invited us inside. And we sat down and shared a message. God sent us miraculous rain!

The last thing that I'm probably going to tell you about for this week... is... that Brother Bom got BAPTIZED! Wow. He is amazing. He's a very quiet man... he doesn't really say much... but you can sense his sincerity by the thoughtful way that he reads the scriptures... and by his willingness to keep the commandments. We had an appointment with him this week. He had already passed his interview... but he came and we were going to watch the restoration video. He'd just come from a job interview. We asked him how it went... and he told us... that they wouldn't let him have work off on Sunday... and so... he told them no!! Wow. I'm so proud of him!! :) The lesson we had planned... kind of failed. We tried to watch the restoration... and spent a ridiculously long amount of time trying to get the tv to work. We gave up and taught him an impromptu lesson. Anyway. He went back home... and looked for the restoration on his own! He couldn't find it in Thai. And so he watched it in English! Man he is SO awesome. He told us that he feels like a new person. I'm so happy for him! His mom is soon to follow! :)